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Popped into HMV Oxford Circus today and found the Anner Bijlsma 70 Years - A jubille Edition at £18 odd. This 11 CD set is even cheaper online: http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=12;-1;-1;-1&sku=199245Well and truly worth investigating. Strangely, while the box cover is entirely in English, as are the card slip-cases inside. The notes in booklet are in Dutch only. No matter, it's the palying that counts. The first five Bach Suites are played on the "Servais" 'cello from the Smithsonian Collection, the sixth being played on a smaller 5 string instrument. The Beethoven Sonatas are the set recorded with Immerseel, not the earlier one (Nonesuch) with Bilson. |
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Martin
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« Reply #1 on: 23:19:22, 16-03-2007 » |
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Goodness me, that is very tempting.(Messageboards can be expensive places!)
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Bryn
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« Reply #2 on: 23:50:52, 16-03-2007 » |
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I decided to start with Disc 7 which is supposed to start with 3 tracks devoted to Jean-Pierre Duport's Sonata for 2 'celli and fortepiano, Op. 2/1. Fair enough. It does. However, that is listed as being immediately followed by Beethoven's WoO 45 variations, which it isn;t. There is an extra unaccredited item for two 'celli at that point. I'd love to know what it is. Anyway, instead of the credited 12 tracks on theis CD, there are 13. The instrument played by Stanley Hoogland is described only as a "Pianoforte". Well, being Hoogland, it is, of course, a fortepiano, but what model, my ears are not well enough educated to identify, and the information on the slip-cases, booklet and box is of no assistance in such matters.
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George Garnett
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« Reply #4 on: 09:06:46, 17-03-2007 » |
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Thanks for the tip, Bryn. But you're not seriously telling me he is now over 70! This sort of thing is happening far too often these days with performers and composers who were just entering middle age last time I checked.
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Bryn
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« Reply #5 on: 22:26:17, 17-03-2007 » |
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George, Martin and anyone else interested, the plot thickens. Contrary to the attribution on the slip cases, the Bach Suites are not the recordings made using the "Servais" 'cello, but are indeed the earlier analogue recordings for which he used a 1669 Goffriller in the first five suites, and a 5 stringed instrumetnfrom the Tyrol for the sixth. Perhaps these errors in the packaging are the reason for the very low price they are being cleared at.
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Martin
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« Reply #6 on: 22:31:46, 17-03-2007 » |
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Perfect timing, Bryn. I was just Listening Again to the Early Music Show and hearing Bylsma's Bach on the Servais, and wondering about that very point: which recording it was. Many thanks for getting there first!
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #7 on: 22:34:39, 17-03-2007 » |
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the Bach Suites are not the recordings made using the "Servais" 'cello Isn't that a Spanish beer? |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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Bryn
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« Reply #8 on: 22:50:04, 17-03-2007 » |
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No, Ian. Servais was Belgian, as you well know. The instrument was the reputedly the last large 'cello made by Stradivarius and was once owned by Adrien-François.
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Bryn
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« Reply #9 on: 22:56:25, 17-03-2007 » |
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It's very strange, Martin. They have reproduced the front of the Servais recording's booklets and yet given the recording dates as 1979 on the back. It was only when I started playing the first CD that it struck me that the sound just wasn't right, so I checked the timings and it became obvious that it was the in fact the Goffriller.
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